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Stars of the week – Yoki & Gerard 

This week, class 4 have been reflecting on the things that are important to them. They have created and decorated beautiful mezuzah cases to remind them.

In Maths, the class have been working very hard to complete 2 digit by 1 digit mental multiplication.

Within English, the children have been creating vivid setting descriptions based on a Viking Village, focusing on the 5 senses.

 

 

Stars of the week – Samuel & Phoebe

During the week, the children have been working hard to finish their English publishing and have learnt to reduce repetition through pronouns. 

In Maths, children have been learning how to do column addition and subtraction with exchanges with up to 5 digits. 

In Science, the children conducted an investigation into toothpaste and the impact on teeth, looking at popular brands and the speed they removed plaque from enamel. 

Stars of the week: Ruby & Rory

After careful, planning, drafting and editing we have finally started publishing our exciting Viking Sagas ready for a class display.

In Science, Class 4 have been learning about ‘Food webs’ and the animals within different ecosystems; the producers, primary consumers and secondary consumers. They have looked at the importance of each and how they depend on one another.

Class 4 have been superb in Maths, using the column addition method to complete 4 digit by 4 digit sums.

In Art we have been looking at Picasso’s blue period. We had a go using similar colours and tints to create our own versions.

Stars of the week: Evelyn and Justin

In English this week, Class 4 have learnt about pronouns and possessives. We’ve also built upon our knowledge of fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases ready to implement into our Viking Sagas.

In Math’s, Class 4 have delved into addition and subtraction discovering mental techniques to complete 2 digit by 2 digit mental addition and subtraction.

In Science, we have continued our learning of ‘Animals including humans’, developing our understanding of food chains, the importance of producers and consumers. The children have also made their own food chains.

 

Stars of the week – Ava and Jacob W

 This week in English we’ve been learning about different ways to structure sentences and to improve them making them more exciting for the reader. We’ve learnt how to expand noun phrases and use fronted adverbials. 

In Maths, we’ve been rounding numbers up to 1000 and have been looking at Roman Numerals – how to interpret and create our own. In addition, we’ve started our addition and subtraction topic – beginning with mental addition and subtraction strategies. 

Continuing on with Art from last week, children have applied more of Picasso’s techniques. Incorporating patterns with cubist designs.

 

Stars of the week: Anusha and Jacob A

Well done to Class 4 for settling into a new class so well!

In English we have started our new class book ‘The Saga of Erik the Viking’ and we have also started to plan out a diary entry where we will be the main characters of our very own Viking Saga. The children have been developing their ambitious language choices to describe the setting and characters of their diary entries.

This week in Maths we have been looking at the place value of numbers, partitioning numbers using Base 10 and looking at representations to solidify understanding. This will help us next week where we shall be rounding numbers to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.

We had a very creative session in Art looking at the work of Picasso and his work in creating cubism. Class 4 had a go at creating wonderful recreations using Picasso’s work as an inspiration.

Stars of the week: Astrid and Eyoel

This week the whole school had a visit from one of the original dancers in the west end production of STOMP. Class 4 had a brilliant workshop with him, and learnt the different wants they can create sounds and rhythms just using their body. They learnt a very complex routine in under 15 minutes and then they got into groups to create their own routine.

Also this week, Class 4 enjoyed participating in the Summer Fair. They played lots of brilliant games and won some great prizes! Thank you to the Friends of Cathedral School for organising this.

Stars of the Week: All of Class 4!

This week, Class 4 participated in a local schools cricket tournament, organised by Platform cricket who came into school for 10 training sessions. Around 19 teams from lots of different schools in the Elephant and Castle area also attended.

Throughout the tournament, every child worked hard to show off the skills and techniques they had learnt during the 10-week block, and provided a great competition. From the 19 teams, 2 out of the 3 Cathedral teams made it to the semi-finals and we had a great, competitive match between Cathedral A and Cathedral C in the 3rd and 4th place play-off. Class 4 acted with such maturity and determination throughout the tournament and showed great sportsmanship during, and after every match – by being the first team to initiate the shaking of hands and saying thank you for a great game.

Well done Class 4!

 

Stars of the week: Cam’ron and Belén

This week in Class 4, we had a dilemma to solve! Iron Man has destroyed all the farm machinery and the villagers were getting fed up! We had to decide if Iron Man should be punished or protected. Class 4 created some persuasive arguments for each side, and then we had a very respectful and mature debate over the dilemma. Well done for being so sensible and for listening to each other’s reasons.

Next week, we are going to be writing our persuasive letter to the village mayor to demand he listens to our reasons!